De senectute ; De amicitia ; De divinatione - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Three late dialogues.

Cicero
(Marcus Tullius, 106-43
BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and
philosopher, of whom we know
more than of any other Roman, lived
through the stirring era that saw
the rise, dictatorship, and death of
Julius Caesar in a tottering
republic. In his political speeches
especially and in his correspondence
we see the excitement, tension and
intrigue of politics and the part he
played in the turmoil of the
time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered
before the Roman people or the
Senate if they were political, before
jurors if judicial, fifty-eight
survive (a few of them incompletely). In
the fourteenth century
Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered
manuscripts containing
more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were
written by Cicero and
nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a
revelation of the man all
the more striking because most were not
written for publication. Six
rhetorical works survive and another in
fragments. Philosophical works
include seven extant major compositions
and a number of others; and
some lost. There is also poetry, some
original, some as translations
from the Greek.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes.